The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (soundtrack)
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| Soundtrack album by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis | ||||
| Released | 2007 | |||
| Label | Mute | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.2/10) |
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis is the official soundtrack album to the movie of the same name. The album is the second collaboration between Cave and Ellis, and followed their 2005 soundtrack to the film The Proposition.
There are six untitled score pieces composed by Cave and Ellis which do not appear on the retail soundtrack. They include:
There is a song played by a busker in a bar, played by Nick Cave, towards the end of the film entitled "Jesse James" or "The Ballad of Jesse James". This was written by Billy Gashade in 1882 and has been modified and covered by Uncle Dave Macon in 1929, Ken Curtis and the Sons of the Pioneers in the 1930s, Woody Guthrie in 1940, Burl Ives in the 1940s, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Cisco Houston, The Kingston Trio, Eddy Arnold, Bob Seger in 1972, Ry Cooder in 1980, The Pogues in 1985 and Van Morrison in 1998.
Cave and Ellis released a double disc album titled White Lunar in September 2009, which contains several tracks from the Jesse James score, as well as tracks they composed for other films up to 2009.
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